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[Quartz_Mace]

Could I turn back the amount of time the universe has existed by 1%?

[Leafsnail]

Pretty sure that would result in a billion year time loop or something.

[King Kravoka]

Pretty sure that would result in a billion year time loop or something.

HOW DO WE KEEP FIGURING OUT NEW WAYS TO END THE UNIVERSE?!?!

[Reelya]

Wouldn't it be logarithmic?  Unless you were solely increasing the percentage your power increased by every day.

An exponential relation has the form

y = a^x

a is 1.01 and x is the number of days that you do the specific power for. That is exponential.

We can rejig a lot of the power statements by rewording increases as decreases or vice versa. e.g. say you have "decrease the percentage of people living in poverty by 1%". By most definitions, the majority of people do not live in poverty. Call it 1/3 worldwide. So it's a 1% decrease of 1/3 of the population. But you could have said "increase the percentage of people not living in poverty by 1%", which is double the effect.

Note though, that this could be like badly worded wishes. e.g., a massive ebola breakout would in fact work wonders to achieve the decrease in the percentage of poor people.

[MaximumZero]

By most definitions, the majority of people do not live in poverty. Call it 1/3 worldwide.

The vast majority of people worldwide live on less than $10/day. There's a lot of poverty to go around.

[fivex]

"Decrease by 1% the probability of {event} NOT happening and this probability resetting each nanosecond"
This means that {event} has a >99.9999% chance of happening each nanosecond.
{event} can be something as extreme as "me becoming omnipotent"

[King Kravoka]

"Decrease by 1% the probability of {event} NOT happening and this probability resetting each nanosecond"
This means that {event} has a >99.9999% chance of happening each nanosecond.
{event} can be something as extreme as "me becoming omnipotent"

You need to rephrase that.

"Decrease by 1% the probability of X NOT happening per nanosecond."

The good news is that we now have a definitive way to accelerate the possibility of the discovery of FTL travel within the next 364 days.

[Quartz_Mace]

Pretty sure that would result in a billion year time loop or something.

HOW DO WE KEEP FIGURING OUT NEW WAYS TO END THE UNIVERSE?!?!

Because there are just so many.

[Neonivek]

Ahhh finally someone caught into my decrease trick!

[Bohandas]

The good news is that we now have a definitive way to accelerate the possibility of the discovery of FTL travel within the next 364 days.

Or we could just raise the speed of light like they did on Futurama

[Leafsnail]

Yeah it would be pretty interesting to watch the universe collapse.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Increase Americas daily spending by 1%
Watch as dept rises slowly

[King Kravoka]

Increase the combined morality of the human race by 1%.

[King Kravoka]

Increase the combined morality of the human race by 1%.

...good luck measuring morality?

It's still a better idea than tampering with the laws of physics.

[Bohandas]

Ok, then let's forget about both of those and go simpler...

What if we made everyone's johnson bigger?